I happen to be one of the winners of the Falling Walls Award ( @falling_walls) for The Art & Science this year. The ceremony took place last weekend in Berlin during science week. Not fun fact: in order to attend the ceremony I was invited to pay a €1500 ticket. While being somewhat amused that prizes can also work in reverse nowadays, I decided to skip such an honourable opportunity for good. The closer I get to institutional cooperation lately, the more I feel that we, the artists, are failing big time to establish healthy institutional relationships. As a result, the more power is in the hands of the institutions and the less agency do we have. This is wrong, because if there were no artists - there wouldn’t be any need for institutions. This hierarchy should be revisited, and we need a new form of institutional and platform critique today.
Tokyo, Mishuku, JPN
Vienna, Neubau, AUT
Egor Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
mail/at/kraft.studio
Tokyo, Mishuku, JPN
Vienna, Neubau, AUT
Egor Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
#ReverseArchaeology #SyntheticHistories #Cognitecture #AIsthetics #Engistemics
Initiated in 2017, ongoing.
Marble, polyamide, machine learning algorithms, custom software, original dataset, multichannel video installation.
A critical and technical exploration of the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone. This work questions the epistemological qualities of AI-accelerated historiography, akin to 'reverse archaeology'.
#Infodemics #Infollution #Knowlegistics #EngineeredTruth
Initiated in 2011, ongoing.
5-channel video installation; HD film; website: thenewcolor.net; book, edition of 50.
An online mystification concerning a parascientific breakthrough discovery of a never-before-seen colour. The digital myth took the form of a fictitious company's website, video adverts & mockumentary interviews to become a viral sensation attracting mass attention online.